Churchill did NOT want D-Day: 'His plan would have ended WW2 six months EARLIER'

Churchill did NOT want D-Day: 'His plan would have ended WW2 six months EARLIER'

EXCLUSIVE: WINSTON CHURCHILL did not want D-Day and his counter-plan would have ended the war 6 months earlier, according to Brian Cox and Miranda Richardson in an exclusive interview for their new movie, Churchill.

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Churchill did NOT want D-Day ‘WW2 would have ended 6 months EARLIER with his plan’

Then and Now: D-Day landings 72 years on

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Then & Now compilation to commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the landings. A series of archive pictures taken during the 1944 invasion with direct comparisons of them as they appear today. While the landscape has changed, the memory of the momentous event lives on.

U.S. Army reinforcements march up a hill past a German bunker overlooking Omaha Beach after the D-Day landings near Colleville sur Mer, France, June 18, 1944

A controversial new take on the figure, the new film is set in the weeks leading up to D-Day, as Churchill fights with fellow Allied Commanders and The King concerning his doubts about D-Day – all the while depicting his struggle with depression.

It’s not really common knowledge that Churchill wasn’t fully behind D-Day, concerned for a similar slaughter to Gallipoli during the Great War.

Instead, he preferred the idea of invading Nazi-occupied Europe from its soft underbelly in Italy.

Winston Churchill in pictures

Winston Churchill died in January 24, 1965

Sir Winston Churchill shows the peace sign while smoking a cigar in 1954

Cox continued: “If you’ve ever written a diary, you write judiciously, especially if you’re dealing with people who are still alive.

“So in a way it’s a tip of the iceberg when Eisenhower talks about something, you know that something else is going on, that he doesn’t go into in great detail – and the same with Brooke, but it sort of corresponds.

“That’s why there’s this whole notion of his plan and counter-plan.

Incredibly, the actor also revealed how Churchill’s plan had been put through computer analysis at Sandhurst, which concluded the War could have ended even earlier.